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 »62 A History of Art in Sardinia and Judaea. bands and stout rivets. The shape of the poles is that of a cubit ("shoulder" is the literal meaning of the Hebrew word which has been translated by " cubit "). An intermediate space divides the vertical lower portion of these poles from the box, thus enabling the menial to impel or draw the apparatus at will ; whilst it secures it against his own contact and the immediate Movable Vessels. Mangeant. danger of the chased panels of the box (Fig. i 74) being defaced. We have been careful that the ornament should consist of forms met with in Oriental monuments and in the temple of Solomon ; such as lions chasing bullocks — a subject dear to the Phoenician artist ; l winged figures, and beads or coloquinta, corresponding with the " pendentives " of the text (?), including dentels carried round the necking of the vessel where it fits into the lid ; whilst 1 History of Art, torn. iii. pp. 555, 624, 639.